SFB Honors WonA Rated Ace Card is the most common honor won by SFB players. It can be won either by winning a local tournament with 16-31 players, or placing in the top 2 in a tournament with 32+ players. On SFBOL, in the tri-annual single-elimination tournaments (“RATs”), it is twice as hard to win: 32-63 players gets the winner a card, while 64+ gets the top 2 cards. At Origins, it is easier to win. Out of ~100 players, 26 cards are handed out: 16 in the single-elimination tournament (“Captains”) 8 in the Patrol tournament for those eliminated from Captains, and 2 for Saturday Patrol. 10 Ace cards Andy Palmer and Robert Schirmer have each done player rankings based on different algorithms assessing the players’ performance on SFBOL. Kevin's callsign is Sir_Starfurry, and you can go to either ratings page to see where he currently stands. Although ratings do bounce around, Kevin's rating is reliably in the top 10. Palmer Rankings Page Other honors won include first place in the SFBOL Masters 2001 tournament, and second place in Masters 2000, and 2 local victories in 16+ person tournaments in 1995 for which no ace cards were awarded because there were run by Companion Games, a flash-in-the-pan company that put out its own ships, which one could take in addition to regular SFB tournament cruisers. (Won the Vektrean and the Corporate.) Lastly, I twice won the SFB Online NETKill tournament, earning the title of Cyber Knight. To see a Cyber Knight as I envision it, as drawn by my brother in law Jeff Block, click here
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